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Project D.1 Good Practice Guidelines in Carbon
Accounting
Project
Leader: Dr
Beverley Henry (Email)
Relevance
Good practice
guidelines are fundamental in translating the goals of the UNFCCC
and the Kyoto
Protocol into practical schemes for measuring and monitoring
sequestered carbon and carbon fluxes for national inventory and
project scale purposes.
Research objectives
- To develop
and promote rules and guidelines for carbon accounting in relation
to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),
the Kyoto Protocol and national
requirements.
- To support
Australian scientists engaged in the IPCC "Good Practice
Guidelines" and the Australian Standards Organisation’s
processes.
This project
will attempt to synthesis existing data relevant to the above tasks
and seek to stimulate the collection of additional data where needed.
These data will be freely available to scientists engaged in developing
good practice guidelines. Forums for the exchange of ideas either
face-to-face or via the web will be organised and syntheses of this
information will be prepared.
Issues include:
- Appropriate
definitions for Australian conditions (e.g. biome-based definitions
of a forest, de-vegetation)
- Appropriate
measuring techniques for Australian conditions (with Programs
A & B)
- Feasible
guidelines on accuracy for Australian condition (with Programs
A & B)
- Role of uncertainty
and disturbances in Australian inventories and project scale accounting
(with Projects B2
& B3)
- Identification
of directly human-induced fluxes against those indirectly or naturally
caused (Program B).
Outputs
- A publicly
available knowledge-base of relevant information on scientific
tools and accounting procedures.
- A series
of syntheses and issues papers to assist scientists and user groups
to discuss the relative merits of different practices and options
for accounting and inventory
Outcomes
- Effective
engagement of Australian scientists in setting guidelines both
nationally and internationally
- A forum for
scientists and user groups to discuss and progress good practice
issues.
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